How are you cooking the Thanksgiving bird?

[BDC2823]

Anyone had a turducken? I haven't personally tried it, but always wondered how it was.

 

[hadamulletonce]

Originally Posted by BDC2823

Anyone had a turducken? I haven't personally tried it, but always wondered how it was.

Never tried it myself.

 

[Spatlese]

^ see DNW's comments upthread.

 

[robbie]

this will be my first thanksgiving spent away from home.

I am going to look into deep frying one, as traditional baking leaves it much too dry for my tastes.
It is difficult though, my fiance and 90% of our friends are vegetarians... I don't know if I can eat the leftovers before they go bad.

I might eat dinner roast(vegetarianmeat+stuffing substitute) ...

 

[BDC2823]

Originally Posted by Spatlese

^ see DNW's comments upthread.

Don't know how I missed that. Thanks.

 

[VKK3450]

Originally Posted by robbie

this will be my first thanksgiving spent away from home.

I am going to look into deep frying one, as traditional baking leaves it much too dry for my tastes.
It is difficult though, my fiance and 90% of our friends are vegetarians... I don't know if I can eat the leftovers before they go bad.

I might eat dinner roast(vegetarianmeat+stuffing substitute) ...

90% vegetarians! What is wrong with you man? Get new friends (maybe even a new fiance)!

Are you part of some hippy commune Robbie?

K

 

[topcatny]

I'll be deep frying the turkey as we have done for the last 6 or 7 years. We love the flavor and it frees up the kitchen and the ovens for my wife to make all the other dishes.

 

[blackjack]

For anyone considering deep drying their turkey, I would strongly recommend reading this safety warning from Underwriters Laboratories:

http://www.ul.com/consumers/turkeys.html

They also have a good demonstration video here:



The most common problem is immersing a partially frozen turkey into the hot oil - causing the oil to boil over and catch fire. The flames can go as high as 30 feet - and set fire to houses and/or wooden decks.

 

[robin]

I just talked to some crazy guy who's going to get a lot of black truffles to turn into a paste, and will then place it under the turkey skin before cooking. I think he's on to something.